The new owner of the New Denver Civic Theatre is most likely to be the old owner, Richard Bernstein.

Bernstein, who lost the Civic to the Bank of Evergreen when he fell $100,000 behind on rent and his landlord went into bankruptcy, is busy putting together a team to buy the theater at 721 Santa Fe Drive, he said Monday.

Bernstein saw our Sunday column right here, in which local activist and Civic supporter Paul Fiorino expressed the hope that a consortium of local arts groups will step up and by the theater, keeping it out of the hands of condo-builders.